There are five contributors left and we are out of time. I will allow 30 seconds for each contributor and we will take the five questions together, with the co-operation of the Minister.

Ba mhaith liom ceist maidir le béilí scoile te a ardú leis an Aire. Bhí scoileanna agus eagraíochtaí scoile, chomh maith le comhlacht amháin, i dteagmháil liom ag rá go bhfuil brú orthu an tseirbhís seo a chur ar fáil mar gheall ar an ráta boilscithe agus go bhfuil ardú tagtha ar phraghas an bhia. An bhfuil an Rialtas ag breathnú air seo agus an mbeidh athbhreithniú ann mar gheall air? I raise with the Minister the issue of hot school meals. Several schools and school organisations, as well as a company, have contacted me to outline their concerns that they will not be able to provide the service adequately as a result of the rise in the price of food. Is the Government considering that issue?

My question relates to the fair and transparent distribution of moneys State-wide. I point out that the south east has 9% of the population. Where can we see €900 million within the Government's capital tracker? We cannot see it. The dashboard is useless in terms of showing where money is being spent. In the lifetime of this Dáil, the university sector in Cork has received €300 million but we in the south east have received nothing. I ask the Minister to commit to a new reporting standard and a new dashboard in terms of capital allocations so that people can see where funding is going in the State.

The childcare law reporting project provides valuable insight and transparency through anonymous reporting on what happens in public family law cases, such as those relating to children in care. The legislation that set it up allows for similar anonymous reporting in respect of private family law cases. We need the same reporting in respect of private family law cases, involving issues such as custody, access and maintenance. The same legislation can be used to facilitate that. Can the Government establish an agency now to provide that transparency to the family courts?

Some of the Covid testing centres are due to close on 22 November. That will leave the entire midlands area without a dedicated testing service. I have been contacted by staff in Mullingar and by members of the National Ambulance Service, NAS, who are deeply concerned by this move and, in particular, the additional responsibility it will place on the NAS. Concerns relating to the NAS have been raised already today in the Chamber. I ask the Minister, Deputy McGrath, to take those concerns on board, particularly in light of the pressures under which emergency departments and general practitioners are currently operating.

The State has announced the sale of 8% of the majority stake in AIB in one go. The track record of AIB with its customers can, at least, be questioned. When AIB closed its Schull branch many years ago, the people of Schull and the Mizen Peninsula were promised a mobile bank but AIB is now using every excuse to avoid showing its face in the town. A few months ago, AIB decided to make a huge number of its branches, including those in Castletownbere, Dunmanway and Kinsale, cashless. I am looking for a straight "Yes" or "No" answer. As one of the two Ministers with responsibility for finance, and in light of the State owning 71% of AIB, was the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, aware that AIB planned to making its branches cashless before it announced that decision?

I will do my best to go through the questions quickly.

Deputy Mairéad Farrell raised an issue relating to the hot school meals programme. I will ask the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, to revert to her because it falls under that Department as well as the Department of Education in terms of the rates that are paid to contractors to make sure that vital service can continue.

Deputy Shanahan has raised on several occasions the issue he addressed today. I hear what he has to say in respect of the online projects tracker. It is not designed to capture all of the investment but, rather, only that relating to projects above a certain threshold. He will be familiar with the report that is produced on a regional assembly basis, including for the southern region. In Cork, Cork County Council commissioned a piece of work to look at the totality of funding streams from national government to see if it could come to a conclusion as to how it was faring. Perhaps that is something the Deputy and I can discuss offline. I am open to new reporting channels so that we get a better handle on the proper spread and distribution of resources, which is a Government objective. If it is not being delivered, that is something we would like to address.

I will ask the relevant Ministers to revert to Deputy Costello regarding the reporting of private family law cases.

Deputy Clarke raised an issue relating to the NAS and the change to the regime in respect of Covid testing. I understand from the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, that there is a move to a system which is clinically led, based on an assessment of the need of the area.

Deputy Michael Collins raised the issue of AIB and the changes that were announced and subsequently reversed. I am not the line Minister and so did not have any involvement in that regard. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, has already accounted before the committee as to the level of knowledge within his Department at official level and exactly when he was informed of those changes.